DannyDuberstein said:
Waterline to the top of the doorway
We get to see this in the light a constant light after being awake for several hours already.
CHAOS. Try and picture yourself waking up to knee or hip deep water, your mind is not comprehending, instead of thinking of escape or rescue its trying to process what and why is this happening, until acceptance arrives. There is no power, lightening and flash lights dart back and forth reflecting off everything and your eyes can't focus, its loud the river is roaring and people are screaming. For those who did get out its not just the river but every little ditch & slope draining water from higher ground blocking your escape. You have lived a life in which standing in the rain, going into the water, or simply out into the dark are not the norm.
Calmness breeds calmness. Calmness provides the mind the ability to solve problems but you have to get to acceptance, that this is happening to me and those I care for right now. Of all the various survival trainings this mental part of being calm through chaos maybe the most valuable. There is good reason God put "Be not Afraid" in the Bible 365 times.
Next time you arrive at the store and its pouring down rain, get your family to walk to the car/store calmly without umbrella or rain jacket. Laugh about it after. Go out in the dark together no light, advance to doing it individually, advance to do this at night in a storm, advance further to do it without shoes or proper clothes in an unfamiliar woods. Get your kids to memorize and understand Psalm 23:4, you don't even have to be a Christian for those few words to be helpful at a time of dire need.
“You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.”
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
